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Relentless Reformer Politics and Society in Twentieth- Century America SERIES EDITORS WILLIAM CHAFE, GARY GERSTLE, LINDA GORDON, AND JULIAN ZELIZER RECENT BOOKS IN THE SERIES Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century by Christopher P. Loss Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right by Michelle M. Nickerson The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon Storrs The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA by Benjamin C. Waterhouse Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest by Andrew Needham Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party by Lily Geismer The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power by Leah Wright Rigueur Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America by Robyn Muncy Relentless Reformer JOSEPHINE ROCHE AND PROGRESSIVISM i n T w e n t i e t h - C e n t u r y A m e r i c a ROBY N MUNCY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON & OXFORD Copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu Cover photograph by Chase LTD., Photography, the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archives, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries. Photograph © AFL-CIO, used with permission. All Rights Reserved ISBN 978– 0- 691– 12273– 1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014935546 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std, Folio Std, and Egyptienne Becker Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FOR MOM, DAD, AND MER CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION 1 PART I FIRST BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE’S APPRENTICESHIP, 1886– 1918 1 Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886– 1908 13 2 Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908– 1912 26 3 Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912– 1913 42 4 Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913– 1914 64 5 “Part of It All One Must Become”: Progressive in Wartime, 1915– 1918 79 PART II FIRST TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE’S NEW DEPARTURES, 1919– 1932 6 Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919– 1927 97 7 Migrating to a “Totally New Planet”: Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927– 1928 110 8 “Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order,” 1929– 1932 126 VII PART III SECOND BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: HEIGHT OF ROCHE’S RENOWN, 1933– 1948 9 Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933– 1934 143 10 At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934– 1939 162 11 Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935– 1939 177 12 Unmoored during Wartime, 1939– 1945 193 13 Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945– 1948 211 PART IV SECOND TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE BUILDS A PRIVATE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE COALFIELDS, 1948– 1963 14 Creating “New Values, New Realities” in the Coalfields, 1948– 1956 227 15 Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners’ Welfare Fund, 1957– 1963 247 PART V THIRD BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE RECLAIMS THE FULL PROGRESSIVE AGENDA, 1960– 1976 16 Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960– 1972 265 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment 289 ABBREVIATIONS 297 NOTES 299 SELECT PRIMARY SOURCES 375 INDEX 379 VIII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I could write nearly as long a story of my adventures researching Josephine Roche’s life as I wrote about her life itself. Susan Ware was the first person who encouraged me to pursue a full biography of Roche. She set me on the path by contracting an entry on Roche for Notable American Women (Belknap Press, 2004). Susan has since read proposals and conference papers about Roche and at every point of- fered sound advice and effective encouragement. Thank you, Susan. I also want to thank here a particular labor historian, who, when I informed him I might write a book on Josephine Roche, referred to her as a “toady” of John L. Lewis. That description was so at odds with everything I had learned about Roche to that point that it gave me extra incentive to take the plunge into biography. As every historian does, I have depended on many archivists and li- brarians. Special thanks to Walter Bowman at the State of Kentucky Archives; Larry DeWitt at the Social Security Administration Archives in Baltimore; Michael Hussey at the National Archives in College Park; Barry Kernfeld in the Labor History Collection at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries; Carol Leadenham and Ron Bulatoff at the Hoover Institution; William LeFevre at Wayne State University’s Walter P. Reuther Library and Archives; Halyna Myroniuk at the University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center; Gayle Richardson in the Manu- scripts Division of the Huntington Library; Michael Ridderbusch at the University of West Virginia Libraries; Cynthia Rand in the Denver Public Library’s Western History Collection; Angie Reinecke in the Archives at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Dean Rogers at Vassar College’s Special Collections; Ellen Shea at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library; Frank Tapp at the Auraria Library in Denver; Eileen Witte in the Vassar Col- lege Alumnae Office; and all the wonderful archivists at the Franklin D. IX

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